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A mural of Venus Anadyomene, with the goddess wringing her hair, from the Casa del Principe di Napoli in Pompeii. According to Greek mythology, Aphrodite was born as an adult woman from the sea off Paphos in Cyprus, which also perpetually renewed her virginity.
Venus Anadyomene is an oil painting by Titian, dating to around 1520. It depicts Venus rising from the sea and wringing her hair, with a shell visible at the bottom left, taken from a description of Venus by Greek poet Hesiod in which she was born fully-grown from a shell. [ 2 ]
Venus Anadyomene is a painting by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It is now held at the Musée Condé , Chantilly, France. It is a female nude of the Venus Anadyomene type, showing the goddess Venus rising from the sea.
This mural from Pompeii is believed to be based on Apelles' Venus Anadyomene, brought to Rome by Augustus. Much of what is known of Apelles is derived from Pliny the Elder (Natural History, XXXV). His skill at drawing the human face is the focus of a story connecting him with Ptolemy I Soter. This onetime general of Alexander disliked Apelles ...
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in
[107] Ingres's Venus Anadyomene was begun in 1807 but not completed until 1848, after a long hiatus resulting from his indecision about the position of the arms. [30] The Source (1856) had a similar history. It was begun in the 1820s as a sketch of "such simplicity that one would suppose she had been painted in a single stroke" according to ...
Statues (and, in this case, Renaissance and later paintings) of Aphrodite and Venus of the Venus Anadyomene type. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Venus Anadyomenes . Pages in category "Venus Anadyomenes"
The pose of the nude may be compared with that of another by Ingres, the Venus Anadyomene (1848), [6] and is a reimagination of the Aphrodite of Cnidus or Venus Pudica. [5] Two of Ingres' students, painters Paul Balze and Alexandre Desgoffe, helped to create the background and water jar. [1]